There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.